If the mind can’t be found, then how can it be stirred up?
Simple
- Where exactly is “the mind” located? Can you find your mind?
- When the direct experience and realization occurs that mind cannot be found, then anything that troubles mind becomes experienced as not relevant and not a concern.
Descriptive
- Begin with a thought exercise like this:
- When the foot touches cold water and gets cold, does the brain touch the cold water? It seems to receive the signal from the foot that says it is experiencing “cold”. The brain then seems to create the experience of cold in a simulation it experiences, and it then seems to experience the cold in this way. So it also must be this way with input from the other 4 body senses: taste, smell, sight, sound. Each time the signal seems to go to the brain, the brain creates a virtual simulation of the experience. If this is all we experience plus mental phenomena, then is it possible that all experience is made up of, and takes place within mind?
- What then is mind? Where exactly is mind located? Can you find your mind?
- Begin honestly, continually searching through experience for the felt sense of the answer to each of these questions.
- When the realization occurs that mind cannot be found, then anything that troubles mind becomes experienced as not relevant and not a concern.